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She seemed to follow, and her divination stirred a singular emotion, possibly a more turbulent emotion than Katie Jones had ever known. "It's all very well to pity me, but it's not a genuine pity it's a jeering one. If you're going to pity me, why don't you do it sincerely instead of scoffingly? Is it my fault that I don't know anything about life?
"I'll see what I can do," said he nervously, "but you mustn't forget that Lavinia will have to be quite two years at school, and there is her music master " "Oh I dare say," rejoined the lady scoffingly, "and the mantle maker, and the milliner, and the glover, and the hairdresser. That's your affair, not mine. Name a round sum and I'll try to meet you. What d'ye say?" "Would five guineas ?"
'And if it did catch fire I would get out safe, said Betty solemnly; 'for I should climb out of the window and walk along the gutter, holding on by the roof; and then I should climb down by the pear tree over Uncle Harry's bedroom. 'You couldn't do it, said Douglas scoffingly; 'girls can't climb! 'I could do it; I could do it now! 'Then do it, do it; I dare you to do it!
But "How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?" are questions to which, whether asked scoffingly or sincerely, we can give no answers; here our understanding fails, and here the truth is not revealed to us. How, then, has Christianity no mysteries? In one sense, blessed be God for it, it has many. Using mysteries in St.
His whole pride as a man rose at the thought. However, he said nothing. He accepted the heavy weight of the hand on his shoulder and even sat bent in two, as though beaten, powerless, almost frightened. "Eh, clever!" said the deputy, scoffingly. "We don't seem to be swaggering quite so much." The stage was full of actors who were arguing and making a noise.
If you are convinced you are the object of some criminal activity, and are willing to hold nothing back, I can detail two plain-clothes men from my own office to go with you and help you out." Durkin laughed, a little recklessly, a little scoffingly. Two plain-clothes men to capture a steel-bound fortress! "Don't trouble them.
"His father indignantly refused to take any such step, and then told him the plans he had himself formed for him. At this he laughed scoffingly. "'You have the choice, he said, 'of giving me half, or of my taking everything. And then he swore with terrible oaths that unless his father signed the paper, that day should be his last. 'You are in my power, he said, 'and I am desperate.
XVIII. When Pompeius arrived in Iberia, as it usually happens with the reputation of a new commander, he gave the people great hopes, and the nations which were not firmly attached to the party of Sertorius began to stir themselves and change sides; whereupon Sertorius gave vent to arrogant expressions against Pompeius, and scoffingly said, he should only need a cane and a whip for this youth, if he were not afraid of that old woman, meaning Metellus.
Fortune Lapersonne listened open-eyed, and grumbled scoffingly between his teeth: "He is not satisfied with robbing Hippolyte Ceres of his wife, but he must go and rob him of his catchwords too."
The valet laughed scoffingly. "You gave him ze diamonds. Why? You were d d glad to be rid of zem. We can't do anything with zem now. We may have to wait months or years before we can venture to cut zem up and dispose of zem. Non, monsieur! If zey appeared on ze market now, ze news would be flashed immédiatement to every corner of ze globe, and your career and mine would come to a quick end.
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